In this episode, we explore one of the most powerful tools of the human mind - the thought experiment. 

We tackle the following questions:

  1. What is a thought experiment?

  2. What are the abilities or strengths or capabilities of a thought experiment?

  3. What are its weaknesses?

  4. What is its main value?

  5. How do you conduct a thought experiment?

  6. What are some areas where thought experiments are most useful?

  7. When running a physically impossible thought experiment, how can we keep it grounded in reality?

  8. When running a historical counter-factual thought experiment, how can we draw conclusions, and what are valid conclusions from such a chaotic system?

  9. What is the advantage of "Intuiting the Non-Intuitive" in a thought experiment?